Joe Parker

Head Warden & Bird Obs Warden @lundybirds | A-permit Ringer | Former Events Manager @harbourbirds

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

@kayakpoole @harbourbirds @DorsetWildlife @DorsetBirdClub @PetePotts7 is this one of your colour-marked godwits?

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

❗37 Cory's Shearwater off Lundy today. Only 2 previous records, both single birds in 2011 & 2023. Also, Great Egret (4th island record) & Ortolan Bunting 📷 Best of the rest, 3 Black Redstart new-in, 6 Ring Ouzel & biggest Chaffinch movement (773) so far this autumn @BirdGuides

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

https://t.co/lJqkml4ygB

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

@denise_wildlife @harbourbirds Exciting news, Denise. Best of luck with your training!

[Michael Williams @old_light]

A great opportunity to spend part of the summer on Lundy! @LundyLandmark @DiscoverLundy #lundyisland

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

🚨 We're currently advertising for a residential Bird Obs volunteer to join our team in late autumn. Dates are flexible and may be extended for the right candidate. The role will centre around conducting the daily census recording and migration ringing 🪶

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

🚨 We've just re-opened two residential volunteer positions for the 2024 sailing season! Both fantastic opportunities for budding conservationists with an interest in practical wildlife/estate management or Bird Obs studies at one of the nation's top migration hotspots 🪚🪶

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

Calling all Lundy visitors 👀 We record all the daily sightings at 8PM every evening. So if you're keen to know what's about, or have records to report yourself, feel free to join. Everyone welcome & we hope to see you there!

Thanks to Lucy, aged 10, for help drawing our logo 🙏

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

Latest offerings from the Lundy Bird Observatory website now online. This stunning drake Green-winged Teal 📷 becomes only the second island record! Catch up on all our latest nocturnal surveys and first stirrings of spring 👇
https://t.co/ARSbkfwGqy

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

This is a fantastic opportunity for a bird ringer to join the recently re-accredited Observatory after enjoying a sensational season this year!

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

🚨 More exciting news today - we're delighted to announce the launch of our brand new Lundy Bird Observatory website! Keep up with the latest island news, explore the various projects we run and check out our new calendar for visiting bird ringing groups!

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

@greenhairstreak @BBCDevon Fab! See you next year 😄

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

Great to celebrate the flourishing seabird populations on Lundy this morning with @BBCDevon

[BBC Devon @BBCDevon]

There are now more seabirds nesting on Lundy than at any time since the thirties 🙏 Click here to listen to Joe Parker, the Lundy Bird Observatory warden, talk about why wildlife there is now thriving ➡ https://t.co/OZLFBR2cQ6

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

@LizWoodford1 Thanks @LizWoodford1! I could talk seabirds for hours 😅

[Dorset Bird Club @DorsetBirdClub]

Of interest to Dorset, not just because of the Puffin success but also as @jsparker_ worked for Birds of Poole Harbour and was active Dorset birder before moving to Lundy this year.

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

What a time to be off island! 😬 Top effort from Bird Obs Assistant @LukeMarriner17 and Co trapping the Millcombe Waxwing this morning while I'm away. Brambling also ringied on the same net round. Photo © L Marriner

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

A smattering of late migrants logged across the island today. Common Whitethroat among the 134 birds ringed in Millcombe this morning, a smart male Redstart 📷 (A Jayne) around Stoneycroft at 1355 and a Pied Flycatcher on the terrace at midday (P Morton) @BirdGuides

[Joe Parker @jsparker_]

@NarwhalSh @ianballam @harbourbirds A Poole Harbour skipper once told me their 'rule of thumb' for barometric pressure influence was to allow 1 cm difference for every millibar +/- 1013 hPa

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

It's been another bumper week on Lundy! Catch up on all the news with our latest sightings blog complied by our Bird Obs Assistant @angus_croudace. 📷 Merlin © Richard Campey

https://t.co/1ltiMX6vJI

[Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds]

Common Redshank becomes the latest addition to the island's ringing species list on Monday night. Plus, first Woodcock of the season ringed during a nocturnal survey yesterday